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Bill Furniss: "We are not getting carried away"

Great Britain's swimming head coach Bill Furniss says that there is still "a lot of work" for the team to do, despite their recent positive results.

Head coach Bill Furniss has insisted that no members of the Great British swimming squad have got "carried away" with their recent performances in the pool.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Team GB scooped just three medals, while a year later, just one podium finish was secured at the World Championships.

However, in 2014, the home nations won a combined 45 medals at this summer's Commonwealth Games, before they came together at last week's World Short Course Championships to claim a further eight medals.

Despite those positive results, Furniss has insisted that there is still "a lot of work to do".

"Even with our results at the Commonwealths and Europeans, we are not getting carried away," he told Team GB's official website.

"We know we've got a lot of work to do, we targeted this meet really to learn more about starts, turns, finishes and we've learned a lot from some of the athletes. Some of them have improved at this meet but they are all going to take stuff away they can work on."

Also this year, Team GB recorded a 24-medal haul at the European Championships.

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